And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
Ver. 32. And we declare unto you glad tidings] Even the sum of all the good news in the world, and that which should swallow up all discontents. The old Church had επαγγελιαν, the promise only; but we now have ευαγγελιαν, the joyful tidings, good news from heaven.